Intermediate Agent For Supermarkets

Supermarket

Intermediate Agent for Supermarkets in Java 

In 2012, as part of my Java undergrad course in M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology we came with this idea of creating an
intermediate agent which would aggregate the prices of various commodities from different local vendors and present a unified 
interface for people to choose the vendors from. We used this tool to study the impact of factors affecting pricing of products 
among local vendors. 

We carried out the following steps,
1. Did a field survey to gather the prices of various items from local vendors.
2. Fed all this data into a SQL server.
3. We built an UI with JAVA Swing for front end and exposed this to beta users.
4. We captured all the responses to preferred vendors from the beta users.
5. After the beta phase was complete we cross checked the user responses of preferred vendors with current prices of 
   various items.
6. We found a correlation that the prices of few commodities went down when the number of customers preferring the vendor
   went down.
   
The project recieved the best project for the course.